The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 |
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Page xi
... occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the ...
... occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the ...
Page xvii
... occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always fome- thing wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expec- tation or ...
... occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always fome- thing wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expec- tation or ...
Page xxii
... occafion demanded , to fhow how much his ftores of knowledge could fup- ply , he feldom escapes without the pity or refentment of his reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he ...
... occafion demanded , to fhow how much his ftores of knowledge could fup- ply , he feldom escapes without the pity or refentment of his reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he ...
Page xxxvii
... occafion . There are a few paffages which may pafs for imita- tions , but fo few , that the exception only confirms the rule ; he obtained them from accidental quotations , or by oral communication , and as he ufed what he had , would ...
... occafion . There are a few paffages which may pafs for imita- tions , but fo few , that the exception only confirms the rule ; he obtained them from accidental quotations , or by oral communication , and as he ufed what he had , would ...
Page lxxi
... occafion is prefented to " him : No man can fay , he ever had a fit fubject " for his wit , and did not then raife himself as high " above the reft of poets , " " Quantum lenta folent inter viburna cupressi . " It is to be lamented ...
... occafion is prefented to " him : No man can fay , he ever had a fit fubject " for his wit , and did not then raife himself as high " above the reft of poets , " " Quantum lenta folent inter viburna cupressi . " It is to be lamented ...
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